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When they were first sold, certain insecticides were highly effective in killing mosquitoes. Today, dozens of mosquito generations later, a much smaller proportion of these insects die when sprayed with the same chemicals. Fewer insects are killed today because __________.

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There are fewer mosquitoes dying because they have adapted to those diseases and chemicals and adapted immunities to them

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